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Wine Goes 64-Bit With Wine64

Posted by timothy on from the leathery-but-not-presumptuous dept.

G3ckoG33k writes "Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a popular way to run Windows programs on Linux, and it has an impressive compatibility list. After 15 years of development it reached version 1.0 a few months ago. Now, Wine developer Maarten Lankhorst has succeeded in running 'Hello World' in 64-bit, natively! The 64-bit variety is unexpectedly named Wine64."

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  1. Wine64??? by brxndxn · · Score: 5, Funny

    How the hell are we supposed to know what that means?! I would've named it Beer.

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    1. Re:Wine64??? by LordKaT · · Score: 2, Funny

      Beer Eats Emulations Remains?

    2. Re:Wine64??? by Clay+Pigeon+-TPF-VS- · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think its fine calling it WINdows Emulator 64.

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    3. Re:Wine64??? by blincoln · · Score: 5, Funny

      How the hell are we supposed to know what that means?! I would've named it Beer.

      If WINE were a Microsoft product, this new 64-bit version would be called WINE32 in order to fit in with the revised Windows system-folder naming standard. The 32-bit version would be renamed to WINO64.

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    4. Re:Wine64??? by baka_toroi · · Score: 5, Funny

      i WIll Not get a jokE

    5. Re:Wine64??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Wouldn't that be:
      Wine64 Is Not an Emulator 64?

    6. Re:Wine64??? by neo8750 · · Score: 5, Funny

      you must be new here...

    7. Re:Wine64??? by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Whoosh64

    8. Re:Wine64??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Aren't you supposed to be yelling at kids to get off your lawn?

    9. Re:Wine64??? by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 4, Funny

      Obviously, you've read the bottle before drinking one.

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    10. Re:Wine64??? by Hal_Porter · · Score: 2, Funny

      mov dx, offset msg
              mov ah, 9
              int 21h
              mox ax, 4c00h
              int 21h

      msg db 'Get off my lawn',13,10,'$

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      echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
    11. Re:Wine64??? by BluBrick · · Score: 2, Funny

      As opposed to the usual /. offering of whine with attitude?

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    12. Re:Wine64??? by Tetsujin · · Score: 2, Funny

      How the hell are we supposed to know what that means?!

      It's really quite simple...

      Wine: the thing that lets you run Windows programs...
      64: specifies that it runs on the Nintendo 64

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  2. Does it run by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Cygwin? Hah! Tricked you!

  3. Re:Unexpectedly? by vawarayer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds more like 'expectedly' to me....

    So you think you can messss with /. ?

  4. Linux is first again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It looks as though Linux users will have native 64-bit Windows applications before most Windows users.

  5. Re:Wine64 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Considering they only differ by about 200 lines of code I'd say both.

  6. Re:LUK by David+Gerard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Winux!

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  7. Re:LUK by mail2345 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can also go ahead and kidnap the software devs and force them to port the program. That won't have much memory overhead.

  8. Re:LUK by AmberBlackCat · · Score: 2, Funny

    GNU's Not Windows

  9. Re:Who really uses it though ? by Drinking+Bleach · · Score: 4, Funny

    IE6 runs, sure, but leaks memory like there's no tomorrow, so I have to kill -9 it after a few minutes lest I face a swap-spiral of doom.

    So it's just like Windows!

  10. Re:LUK by TheSlashaway · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whine!

  11. Re:LUK by sumdumass · · Score: 5, Funny

    I almost forgot about Gentoo. That's probably the best idea of all.

    Because of an almost masochistic love for a challenge. I think everyone should at least attempt to role their own kernel and desktop from scratch in an early Slackware type of way. But I think that is just me.

  12. Re:LUK by Shikaku · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd rather call the distro Cheeze.

  13. Re:LUK by zx-15 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, download Debian netinstall cd(140Mb) and just install standard system(300Mb), by the way it is also an excellent way of building Debian. Then on top of it install the following packages:
    apt-get install xserver-xorg kde kdm
    And then you gonna get just KDE desktop with no bloat (well, not counting kde). Then install all the packages you really need.

    I did my install that way two years ago, but I haven't really cared what packages I've been installing since, so my system is currently pretty bloated (1500+ packages installed) on the upside, I don't really care about it, the only noticeable performance hit - it takes up to two minutes to boot up the system, but then I hibernate it instead of shutting down, and this hasn't bothered me too much to actually sit down and fix the problem.

  14. Re:LUK by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 2, Funny

    Six tries so far, and the closest I came to having a usable system I had a minimal cli-only install and I accidentally left out networking.
    That was a while ago though. Maybe I will have more success if I try again.

  15. Re:Unexpectedly? by indi0144 · · Score: 2, Funny

    f**k the committee, I'll fork my own sarcasm!

  16. No, I'm New Here by New+Here · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, I'm New Here